Lands of Lore I

While most people will never experience trouble playing Lands of Lore, there are a few that may have their system configured incorrectly. A list of the most common questions from our customers is listed below. If you don't see something on this list, check with our general list of questions instead.

As always you can write us mail and we'll try to get back to you within 24 hours.



Missing a key or object in the game...


We have tested Lands of Lore extensively to determine that all keys and other objects in the game are available at any time. If you think you'll need a certain object to finish the game, DON'T throw it into the swamp, place it into niches or experiment in other ways with it. It is possible to lose items forever if you're not carefull. Use something you won't need later if you must manipulate traps and other devices outside of your inventory.



The game locks up as soon as I select a character to play with.


Early versions of Lands of Lore floppy and CD-ROM have trouble determining the correct CPU speed of Pentium and some 486 66+Mhz machines. This problem has been fixed with all new version of the game. However, if you have an older version and find that the game locks up on you after selecting a character, please download the patch file for the version of the game you have below. Instructions for installing the patch files are included within the self-extracting .EXE file.

Lands of Lore floppy update - North America
Lands of Lore CD-ROM update - All versions
Lands of Lore floppy update - United Kingdom
Lands of Lore floppy update - France
Lands of Lore floppy update - Germany



MISSING FILE error in Lands of Lore.


If you receive an error while playing the game that indicates there is a file missing from the CD-ROM or Hard Drive, you probably don't have enough FILES and BUFFERS allocated in your CONFIG.SYS file. Lands of Lore reads and writes to many files at the same time, and you will need to make sure your computer has the ability to support so many file accesses at the same time. To fix this simply look at your CONFIG.SYS file and see if it has two lines that look similar to :
FILES=40
BUFFERS=40
If you do have these lines in your CONFIG.SYS file, make sure both parameters are set to at least 40 or more. You may need more than 40 depending on what other applications you may have running concurrently with Lands of Lore.



I can see Dawn's Key, but cannot pick it up.


In version 1.05 (floppy version) of Lands of Lore, Dawn's key is placed into the niche which makes it irretrievable. You will need to download the patch file to fix this.



Program hangup on level 3 of the White Tower.


A few of our customers have exprienced a hanging problem upon entering level three of the white tower. If this happens to you, we suggest waiting 3-5 minutes as others have done. The game will "come back to life" and you will be able to continue playing normally.

We suggest you save the game at this point to prevent this from happening again.



Query for Disk 9 during Install.


Our install program incorrectly reports two errors to the user. A query for disk 9 means one of two things has happened..

  1. One of the floppy disks is bad. You will need to get a replacement.
  2. There is not enough space on your hard drive. This error usually occurs when the user has Doublespace or Stacker installed on their system. Because the Lands of Lore files are already compressed, you will need at least 42 megabytes free before installing to a compressed drive.
  3. Smartdrive or another disk caching program is running. Disable or turn the program off, then try again.



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